Maksym Prokopenko

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
Silver	2009 Dartmouth	C-2 1000 m
Silver	2010 Poznań	C-2 500 m
Silver	2011 Szeged	C-2 500 m
Silver	2011 Szeged	C-2 1000 m
Silver	2011 Szeged	C-1 4 x 200 m
Bronze	2006 Szeged	C-2 1000 m
Bronze	2009 Dartmouth	C-2 500 m
European Championships
Gold	2010 Trasona	C-2 1000 m
Silver	2011 Belgrade	C-2 500 m

Maksym Serhiyovych Prokopenko (Максим Сергійович Прокопенко; born March 23, 1984 in Vilshanka, Kirovohrad) is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani sprint canoer who has competed since 2002. He was born in Mykolayiv.

Competing for Ukraine, Prokopenko was the Canadian canoe C-1 500 m silver medallist at the 2002 Junior European Championships in Zagreb. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.

Competing in two Summer Olympics also for Ukraine, Prokopenko earned his best finish of eighth in the C-2 500 m event at Beijing in 2008.

Prokopenko moved to Azerbaijan after the 2008 Summer Olympics and won two medals for his new nation at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events. He also won a silver in the C-2 500 m event at the 2010 championships.

References

• Canoe09.ca profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile

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Name	Prokopenko, Makysm
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Date of birth	March 23, 1984
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